Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath (2024) | onestarfoundation.org
Data showed that Jackson County welcomed 3,455 students during the 2021-22 school year. Among them, Black comprised 6.3% of the student body to be the third most represented ethnicity in the county.
Among the 11 schools in Jackson County, Edna Elementary School recorded the highest enrollment of Black students in the 2021-22 school year, with a total of 68 students.
Texas is found to be one of the least educated states in the U.S. A study from WalletHub ranked Texas 41st out of 50 states in terms of the quality of the educational system and how successful students were.
More than 5.4 million students are enrolled in public schools across Texas. Nearly one million of them live in rural areas where options for local public schools are few and far between.
| School name | % of Black students enrolment | Total enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| Edna Elementary School | 9.2 | 737 |
| Edna High School | 14.2 | 408 |
| Industrial High School | 1.4 | 369 |
| Edna Junior High School | 14.7 | 368 |
| Ganado Elementary School | 0.8 | 353 |
| Industrial Junior High School | 0.7 | 276 |
| Industrial Elementary East | 1.9 | 261 |
| Industrial Elementary West | 0 | 252 |
| Ganado High School | 1.9 | 213 |
| Ganado Junior High School | 4.7 | 172 |
| Edna Alternative | 21.7 | 46 |
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